Anticipations of Freedom
Engaging Stanley Cavell
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 March 2026
- ISBN 9780197841747
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 234x156x19 mm
- Weight 549 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 b&w figures 697
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Short description:
Anticipations of Freedom is an elaboration, defense, and extension of philosopher Stanley Cavell's work. It examines how human beings may better understand themselves and more fruitfully reshape their commitments through their production and reception of artistic and linguistic expressions (poetry, film, music, and ordinary language).
MoreLong description:
Stanley Cavell's critical-aesthetic way of doing philosophy charts a unique path between dogmatic doctrinalism and dull despair in response to the alienations that trouble modern divided life. His methods of attention to cultural phenomena are rooted in a philosophical anthropology that sees human subjects as forever fated to live between complete reconciliation and individualist-instrumentalist transactionalism.
Some works of literature, music, and film, he finds, arrest and absorb their audiences in the fullness of their registerings of this continuing condition and in somehow making meaning and achieving dramatic, non-doctrinal closure. They model for these audiences how temporally situated and finite moments of meaning-making are possible. In doing so, they show us how we might live within our shared condition more productively through engagement with the affordances of art.
Cavell's own writing in turn both describes and re-enacts this achievement, thus itself manifesting the powers of art in response to modern life and serving as a model of 'knowing how to go on' within its ambit. These essays describe and defend Cavell's philosophical anthropology and critical-aesthetic practice. Anticipations of Freedom situates that practice as both a response to and a furthering of an image of America as a site of futural freedom always to be achieved, and it extends Cavell's practice into new readings of works of poetry, film, and music.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Anticipations of Freedom
Selfhood and Method
Between Acknowledgment and Avoidance
Cavell and the Achievement of Selfhood
Conceptual Analysis, Practical Commitment, and Ordinary Language
America: History and Futurity
Cavell on American Philosophy and the Idea of America
Cavell and the American Jeremiad
Sites of Arrest and Recovery: Literature, Music, and Film
Cavell and Hölderlin on Human Immigrancy
Criticism and the Risk of the Self: Stanley Cavell’s Modernism and Elizabeth Bishop’s
“This Most Human Predicament”: Cavell on Language, Intention, and Desire in Shakespeare
How Movies Think: Cavell on Film as a Medium of Art
Imagining Life Together: Psychosexual Intimacy, Social Roles, and Contemporary Comedies of Remarriage
Modernity, Skepticism, and Meaning in The World Viewed
Cavell as Halted Traveler: The Experience of Music
Cavell and Day for Night
Epilogue: Paradoxes and Possibilities of Freedom, Social and Individual
